DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER OF ARMENIA AND AMBASSADOR OF HUNGARY MENTION NECESSITY OF COMPLETING LEGAL-CONTRACTUAL FIELD OF BILATERAL COOPERATION
Noyan Tapan
Apr 11 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 11, NOYAN TAPAN. Arpad Szekely, the newly appointed
Ambassador of Hungary to Armenia (residence in Moscow) handed on
April 11 copies of his credentials to Armen Bayburdian, the Deputy
Foreign Minister of Armenia.
Congratulating the guests on the occasion of appointment, A.Bayburdian
wished the Ambassador success in his responsible mission. During
the conversation the sides touched upon issues of bilateral
cooperation. The necessity of completing the legal-contractual field,
purposefulness of organizing visits at high level as well as holding
of consultations among the Foreign Ministries were bilaterally
mentioned. The Ambassador presented briefly the situation created
after the parliamentary elections held two days before in Hungary as
well as the Hungarian experience of Eurointegration. The RA Foreign
Ministry’s Press and Information Department submitted to Noyan Tapan
the Hungarian Ambassador’s brief biographic data. Arpad Szekely was
born in 1957 in the Hungarian city of Miskolc. In 1976 he graduated
from the Physics Department of the Foldes Ferenc Grammar School
of Miskolc. In 1976-1981 he studied at the International Journalism
Department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In
1981 he started work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary. In
1984-1989 he worked at the Embassy of Hungary to Germany. In 1990-1992
he worked as the Prime Minister’s Personal Assistant for Inner Policy
and Trade. In 1990 he was the representative of the Hungarian part
of the Hungarian-Bavarian Intergovernmental Council. In 2005 he was
appointed the Ambassador of Hungary to Russia. He knows Russian,
English, French. Married, has three children.